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  1. It's very few people who manage to make a living doing something they love. You're a lucky man. I did play for an audience yesterday....was a memorial for a concert promoter back in the 60's....was a heck of a crowd....a lot of guys I know from 50 years ago! Now I'm back to learning a Blaze Foley song here in my kitchen.....life is good!
  2. Norton, that's right.... we can all live to 200 and play every day and STILL barely scratch the surface of what music there is.....and that's a good thing! I have used karaoka backing tracks at times....when there's a part of the song I just can't duplicate....I just did "C'est La Vie" (Chuck Berry) with a backing track...but when I did "We Gotta Get Out Of The Place", I did the bass part and the keyboard part and (of course) the guitar part. But.... I don't have to play then for an audience!
  3. Since retirement, I play for several hours every day, (while the wife sleeps). I get up at 4:30....shower.... take out the dogs..... check my email and log in here.....then practice whatever song I'm working on. Practicing slightly more right now because I have to perform at a memorial service tomorrow...and I can't slide too much as the audience will be all the people from the San Francisco Music Scene. They'll KNOW each time I slip up.
  4. A prominent Bay Area dance promoter from the 60's & 70's passed away recently, and his service is this Sunday. I've been asked to perform a couple of songs there. Another friend sent me this link to something he posted. Tom Brown booked many gigs back then....was in competition with Bill Quarry, but unlike Quarry's relationship with Bill Graham, Quarry and Tom remained friends. I was looking for the photo of me with Bill Quarry in front of where the Rollerena was, and he sent me this: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.123636166059177&type=3
  5. Yes.... and I wasn't old at the time!
  6. I've been to many concerts too....probably the loudest was Hank Williams, Jr. It was so loud it was uncomfortable to sit in the audience....you sure as heck couldn't talk to the person next to you.
  7. If we were issued hearing protection, I don't recall it.
  8. My dad lost his hearing in WWII. Near the end of his life, even hearing aids couldn't restore much of his hearing, (there are probably better aids now). He told me, in a conversation with someone, as long as he could watch their lips, we could understand what they're saying....but in a crowd, he was totally lost. It actually affected his life near the end. Other than the ringing, I think my hearing will last me 'till the end....not so sure about my sight.
  9. I think there's more fading on you other than your hearing! I have tinnitus....24/7. As a youngster, (starting at about 14), I was playing in a band.... the amps were behind us (so we could hear ourselves), and we played LOUD. Then I quit music....went to work in a truck factory....was LOUD! Then I got drafted..... was in the artillerly...... 105MM; 155MM, 8" & 175MM....all were LOUD! When I got out of the army, went back to the truck factory..... still LOUD! Worked in the factory until I changed jobs and went to a bus factory....was still LOUD! Finally was promoted to a job in the front office in 1988....but by then, my hearing was shot!
  10. When you can set each string length individually.... if any string is sharp on the 12th fret, it means the string is too short....so you lengthen the string, re-tune it open then check the 12th fret. again....repeat until the open string and 12th fret are the same. Obviously, if the 12th fret is flat, the string is too long...so you do the above but shorten the string. At least that's how I do it.
  11. This is actually pretty sad.... I mean everyone has to die...but 62....man, I have ties older than 62! Plus, like many others, (Buddy Holly, Jim Croce, etc.), he had a lot more to give us.
  12. What a GREAT professor he was....you were lucky to have met him. Back when I was in college I wasn't very political....I was a registered Democrat because my Union signed me up on the job. I had professors who were obviously "far left", but at the time, it didn't effect me. Some had a small animus because I was a Vietnam Vet, (I went to school on the GI Bill), but if it affected my grades, I didn't notice. I didn't graduate with straight A's but I did graduate with "Highest Honors", (GPA 3.51 or above). I wish I'd had this guy back then!
  13. I never had a teacher I HATED. Some were better than others, and some could teach and some couldn't. There was an infamous principal at my first high school, Dr. Callaghan. EVERYONE hated and feared him. When I was a freshman, I used to hitchhike to school....and once a week or so, Dr. Callaghan would pick me up....we got to be very friendly. My Junior Year in a different school, the principal kicked me out for 6 weeks because of my hair. After all the media attention that brought, and I was finally back in class....he and I became friends too. Don't carry hate around..... that's like taking poison hoping the other guy dies.
  14. That is a true tragedy! RIP, Trey.
  15. I had a teacher for algebra in my Freshman year of high school.... could NOT learn for that man! I didn't hate him, I just couldn't learn from him! When I was kicked out of school, (2 years later and a different school), he showed up a School Board meeting and defended me to the Board....a kid who BARELY passed his class with a "gift C".
  16. HA! Well....she took it, and gave me hell when I got home, (I had to walk home that day!).
  17. I did cut school one time with a friend..... we took his Jeep to San Francisco. He got a parking ticket there....so in order to keep his parents from finding out, we went to the court house to pay the ticket that day.... was $25...that was a LOT of money back then! As a result, we had no money for lunch.....so we went to the free Soup Kitchen and ate with the homeless people! Unfortunately, my mom needed my car that day, so she walked to the school, went to the office to ask them if they'd tell me she took my car during the day, (I had to only car in the family at the time), The office told her, I was absent that day....she said, but his car is in the parking lot! Needless to say my ONLY time cutting school, (besides the 6 weeks I was kicked out due to my hair), I got busted!
  18. WOW! That's a horrible story! So glad you missed it...
  19. We were going to Santa Cruz on our "Senior Cut Day" too. But I found my brakes went out that morning....so I spent the day fixing my brakes and putting on new pads, (1960 Oldsmobile). The school called my house....my mom answered and asked if I was home. She said "Yes", they said "Are you SURE?" She said, "Do you want to talk to him?" They said, "No, thanks.). The seniors all had to do 5 days of detention, or not get their diploma.... 'cept me, and a few nerds!
  20. That's one of the best school pranks I ever heard! Good on YOU!
  21. I recall in the aforementioned "Miss Shaw's" class, there was to be a student dance. We had played the year before, and by this time we were working pretty big venues, so we weren't going to play the dance that year. She asked the class if they wanted a band that played mostly fast songs, or mostly slow songs....of COURSE, I popped up right away and said "How about a band that plays Half-Fast songs?"
  22. Great stuff! Guitar sounds fantastic!
  23. It's 6:38 on the West Coast. Here in Danville, it's 45 degrees right now.
  24. I"d love to get a Standard 'Bird....but I just can't justify it, (and I have no place to keep it anyway!). I'll just have to muddle through with what I've got!
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